ArticleNature ecology & evolution2020
Heterogeneity-diversity relationships differ between and within trophic levels in temperate forests.
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- Environmental Heterogeneity as a Differential Driver for Density of Two Sympatric Rodent Species.Ecology and evolution · 2025Article
- Effective dispersal of fern spore and the ecological relevance of zoochory.Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society · 2025Review
- Disentangling dispersion from mean reveals true heterogeneity-diversity relationships.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Metabolomic profiling reveals that the heterogeneity of microhabitats can assist intertidal mollusks in surviving extreme cold events.Marine life science & technology · 2025Article
- Resolving the context-dependency of local heterogeneity-diversity relationships across rocky reefs worldwide.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Investigating the Variation in Leaf Traits Within thePlants (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Soil resource heterogeneity promotes species richness only at a fine scale at the early restoration of karst abandoned farmland.iScience · 2024Article
- Enhancing economic multifunctionality without compromising multidiversity and ecosystem multifunctionality via forest enrichment.Science advances · 2024Article
- Habitat Diversity Mitigates the Impacts of Human Pressure on Stream Biodiversity.Global change biology · 2024Article
- Disentangling linkages between satellite-derived indicators of forest structure and productivity for ecosystem monitoring.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- High habitat richness reduces the risk of tick-borne encephalitis in Europe: A multi-scale study.One health (Amsterdam, Netherlands) · 2024Article
- Tree diversity increases productivity through enhancing structural complexity across mycorrhizal types.Science advances · 2023Article
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Abstract
The habitat heterogeneity hypothesis predicts that biodiversity increases with increasing habitat heterogeneity due to greater niche dimensionality. However, recent studies have reported that richness can decrease with high heterogeneity due to stochastic extinctions, creating trade-offs between area and heterogeneity. This suggests that greater complexity in heterogeneity-diversity relationships (HDRs) may exist, with potential for group-specific responses to different facets of heterogeneity that may only be partitioned out by a simultaneous test of HDRs of several species groups and several facets of heterogeneity. Here, we systematically decompose habitat heterogeneity into six major facets on ~500 temperate forest plots across Germany and quantify biodiversity of 12 different species groups, including bats, birds, arthropods, fungi, lichens and plants, representing 2,600 species. Heterogeneity in horizontal and vertical forest structure underpinned most HDRs, followed by plant diversity, deadwood and topographic heterogeneity, but the relative importance varied even within the same trophic level. Among substantial HDRs, 53% increased monotonically, consistent with the classical habitat heterogeneity hypothesis but 21% were hump-shaped, 25% had a monotonically decreasing slope and 1% showed no clear pattern. Overall, we found no evidence of a single generalizable mechanism determining HDR patterns.
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